Digital watermarking is a must if you want to protect your image copyright. Your digital watermark can be a text or picture. To have a picture watermark, you need special image watermarking software.

Freewares like MS Paint can only provide simple text watermark. But it need not be dull - your choice of fonts, size and colors can make a simple watermark look excellent.

This tutorial will show you how to put watermarks on your digital images using freeware Microsoft Paint. Microsoft Paint is a simple graphics editor program that is included with every versions of Microsoft Windows. Here’s 3 ways to add a watermark using Windows MS Paint.

A. Add a watermark at the top or bottom of your pictures. This is simple and doesn’t block the view of your items.

1. Just launch MS Paint, open your picture, choose the Text Tool. Click on your picture where you want to add a watermark.

2. You will see a rectangle which will be the boundaries of your text. Clicking and dragging on its borders to move the rectangle around, and clicking on the tab buttons at the corners and midpoints of the edges will resize it.

3. After drawing the text boundary, a floating Font windowwill appear, where you can choose the font name, size, and style.

4. Type your text.

5. If you click outside the rectangle, the text will not be editable anymore! It will behave as common pixels which can be moved or erased, but can’t be edited as a text. So, make sure you’ve done everything to your liking before finishing. Also, be careful not to click outside of the boundary while editing your text.

6. Here’s my finished work:

B. Place your watermark in the middle of the picture.

1. You can use the same method above to do this, only that now you place the rectangle in the middle of the picture.

2. Here’s an example:

C. Put a text annotation watermark.

1. To add such watermark over your digital photo, use the Rounded Rectangle tool.

2. Choose the choose necessary fill style for your rectangle.

3. Draw a rounded rectangle. Click a place on the picture where you want its upper left corner to be, drag diagonally and release the mouse button where you want the lower right corner to be.

4. Then type your text inside of the rectangle, and you’ll get a text annotation watermark added to your picture like this:

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